Lemures

Lemures was a shell company of the Maniaghi Group that was set up during the 1980s. Lemures was branded as a Barbados-based pharmaceutical company, and, when the Maniaghi Group's Zenit Pharmaceuticals was accused of selling tainted blood and creating HIV patients, Michele Maniaghi launched a lawsuit against Lemures in 1989. This gave Maniaghi the appearance of being innocent, with the blame being shifted to Lemures. However, in 1992 - during the Tangentopoli investigation - policeman Luca Pastore discovered that Maniaghi Group lawyer Attilio Arnaldi had acted as Lemures' lawyer in the 1989 case, proving that Lemures was, in fact, a fake company. He later found a Lemures storehouse on the outskirts of Milan and located thousands of tainted plasma packets, and he planned to bust the Maniaghi Group once the Lemures shipment was taken to Zenit. However, Mainaghi president Bibi Mainaghi had the samples burnt, knowing that she was being bugged by Pastore, thereby saving her from arrest.